Responses for Show #3621 - Monday, May 8, 2000

2000 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
From the Atlanta Civic Center.

Contestants

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Melissa Sexstone, a college junior from East Syracuse, New York

Mike Blumenfeld, a network administrator from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jeremy Bate, a writer from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE HISTORY CHANNEL
SPORTS LEGENDS
ADJECTIVES IN NATURE
THE GONE WITH THE WIND MOVIE MUSEUM
(Alex: Which is here in Atlanta.)
FOREWORDS
"BACK" WORDS
    $100 1
the invasion of Normandy

Jeremy
    $100 30
Michael Jordan

Mike
    $100 7
apes

Jeremy
    $100 12
Margaret Mitchell

Melissa
    $100 27
Aldous Huxley

Jeremy
    $100 13
a comeback

Melissa
    $200 2
the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

Mike
    $200 25
Kristi Yamaguchi

Mike
    $200 8
(Jeremy: What is an albatross?)

a petrel

Jeremy
Triple Stumper
    $200 18
Tara

Jeremy
    $200 26
(Mike: What is The Idiot?)

Crime and Punishment

JeremyMike
    $200 14
Backstreet Boys

Jeremy
    $300 4
Tartans

Jeremy
    $300 3
Ken Griffey, Jr.

Melissa
    $300 9
the elm

Jeremy
    $300 19
Peachtree Street

Mike
    $300 21
(Jeremy: Who is H.G. Wells?)

Ralph Ellison

JeremyMike
    $300 15
Back to the Future

Jeremy
    $400 5
(Jeremy: Who is Yves St. Laurent?)
(Melissa: Who is Givenchy?)

Christian Dior

JeremyMelissa
Triple Stumper
    $400 22
Mario Lemieux

Mike
    $400 10
Reticulated

Jeremy
    $400 20
a corset

Melissa
    $400 28
Mary Shelley

Melissa
    $400 16
back to the drawing board

Jeremy
    $500 6
(Mike: What is the Titanic?)

the Queen Mary

JeremyMike
    $500 23
"The Iceman"

Mike
    $500 11
Collared

Triple Stumper
    $500 24
(Jeremy: Who is Rhett Butler?)

Ashley Wilkes

Jeremy
Triple Stumper
    $200 29
(Melissa: no response)

Lolita

Melissa
    $500 17
Backstairs at the White House

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Jeremy Mike Melissa
$1,100 -$300 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jeremy Mike Melissa
$1,700 $1,300 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL
CELEBRITY ANCESTORS
WORDS FOR WORDS
ZODIAC SYMBOLS
HARDPODGE
ALL ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY
[Clues given by former president Jimmy Carter from the Carter Center in Atlanta.]
    $200 5
Venezuela

Jeremy
    $200 16
Davy Crockett

Jeremy
    $200 11
Superlatives

Melissa
    $200 6
Scales

Jeremy
    $200 22
Fillibuster

Melissa
    $200 21
The Capitol

Jeremy
    $400 1
Bosnia

Mike
    $400 17
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jeremy
    $400 12
Expletives

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Taurus

Mike
    $400 23
(J: What is Quebec?)
(Mike: What is New Orleans?)

Montreal

JeremyMike
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jeremy
    $600 2
Somalia

Melissa
    $600 18
Abraham Lincoln

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Acoustic

Melissa
    $600 8
Lion

Triple Stumper
    $600 24
Book-of-the-Month Club

Jeremy
    $600 28
Olive branches

Melissa
    $800 3
Bahrain

Jeremy
    $1,000 19
Boris Karloff

Jeremy
    $800 14
Polysyllabic

Jeremy
    $800 9
Aries the ram

Melissa
    $800 25
Jaws

Jeremy
    $800 29
(Melissa: Who is Franklin Roosevelt?)

Harry S. Truman

JeremyMelissa
    $1000 4
(J: What is Tahiti?)

Tonga

Jeremy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Meriwether Lewis

Mike
    $1000 15
Intensifier

Triple Stumper
    $200 10
(Melissa: Who is Sagittarius?)

Aquarius

Melissa
    $1000 26
Rights of Man

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Alex: I want to express, on behalf of all of us at "Jeopardy!", our thanks to former president Carter for helping us out with that category; as you know, he is chairman of the Carter Center in Atlanta, which does good work all over the world!)

Department of Education

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jeremy Mike Melissa
$6,700 $3,700 $2,700

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. STATES
(Alex: Wanted to name it for the Columbia River.)
MelissaWhat is (Pennsylvania) Georgia?
$2,300
MikeWhat is Washington?
$3,500
JeremyWhat is Washington, D.C.?
$800
Washington

Final scores:

Jeremy Mike Melissa
$5,900 $7,200 $400
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jeremy Mike Melissa
$6,500 $3,700 $3,100
24 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 11 R,
3 W		 11 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $13,300

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Game tape date: 2000-03-18
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